Where are the pictures?

This web page has very few pictures on it. In fact, the
construction.gif is about the only one on the home page. There are a
few reasons for this. The major one is that I haven't found any good
pictures (an hours' worth of work on Alta Vista failed to turn up any
useful pictures of Charles V, and a really bad
picture of Lagrange that I did use, but it's
so-so. I do have scannable pics, though, but I'd like to avoid
running afoul of copyright law (in other words, I still need to check
out a few legal angles...).

Besides, think of it as a useful feature of this page: even if you
forget to set your browser to "Image Autoload --- Not" this
web page will still load pretty quickly. If you want lots of pretty
pictures and are using an ethernet connection or something nice and
speedy, try the Math Department home
page.